MISFORTUNES OF VIRTUE by Marquis De Sade; David Coward (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is foulest in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no morality, no human affection, and no hope. Power is given to the strong, and the strong aremurderers, t ...Show more
DOCTORS WIFE by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Lyn Pykett (Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Isabel Gilbert was not a woman of the world. She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers...she believed in a phantasmal world created out of the pages of poets and romancers.'The Doctor's Wife is Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rewriting of Flaubert's Madame Bovary in which she explores h ...Show more
A Life by Guy de Maupassant
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
`every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk the earth'What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has ...Show more
VIRGINIAN by Owen Wister; Robert Shulman (Notes by, Introduction by, Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is the classic novel of the American West, which served as a model for thousands of later novels and films. It is a story of ranch life and cowboy living at the turn of the century. The hero of the novel, the "Virginian", the only name by which he is known, has left his native state at an early age ...Show more
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Elizabeth Porges Watson (Editor); Charlotte Mitchell (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
QUARAN by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
One of the most influential books in the history of literature, recognized as the greatest literary masterpiece in Arabic, the Qur'an is the supreme authority and living source of all Islamic teaching, the sacred text that sets out the creed, rituals, ethics, and laws of Islam. Yet despite the growing i ...Show more
CORINNE by Madame de Staël; Sylvia Raphael (Edited and Translated by); John Isbell (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spel ...Show more
CRIMES OF LOVE by Sade Marquis De
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in his stories--tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depra ...Show more
OLD ENGLISH BARON by Clara Reeve; James Trainer (Editor); James Watt (Introduction by)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777, and is considered a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction.Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that..."This Story is ...Show more
WANDERING STARS by Sholem Aleichem; Aliza Shevrin (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Wandering Stars"--Aleichem's sprawling love story set in the colorful world of the Yiddish theater--this literary classic is presented in a vibrant new translation.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oprah's Classics Book Club Selections | Reading Level: very good
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonskytranslation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, "Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing o ...Show more